Diff'rent Strokes (TV Series)

So You Want to Be a Rock Star? (1985)

Gary Coleman: Arnold Jackson

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Quotes 

• Arnold Jackson : ...So how am I doing with the saxophone?

  Mr. Kingsley : ...I've got two versions of that answer: Nice and Honest. Which do you want to hear?

  Arnold Jackson : The Honest version.

  Mr. Kingsley : ...No, you don't. Let me put it another way: You have *potential* - in the same way that I have the potential to be a rocket scientist.

  Arnold Jackson : *You*, a *rocket scientist*?

  [laughs hysterically for a few seconds, then abruptly stops as the meaning sinks in] 

  Arnold Jackson : ... That bad, huh? Well, let's say I took a week or so of intensive short-term round-the-clock training. How good might I be afterward?

  Mr. Kingsley : Afterward, you'd be good enough to...

  [searches for the right words] 

  Mr. Kingsley : ... good enough to make Harmony Smurf sound like Dizzy Gillespie.

  Arnold Jackson : ...You're right; I should've asked for the nice version.

  Mr. Kingsley : That *was* the nice version... Seriously, Arnold, not everybody can expect to be good at everything they try.